La Grande Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Relief at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC
Chiropractic eases conditions like spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is everywhere today. Why? An aging population. We are all aging, and when we get to a certain age, our bodies compensate us with conditions like spinal stenosis. There’s no problem, though! Chiropractic care is a solution for many spinal stenosis pain patients. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers gentle, evidence-based chiropractic care in the form of Cox Technic to help control and relieve back pain due to spinal stenosis.
Lumbar spinal stenosis may result from any of a number of issues like a disc herniation, disc bulge or contained disc, synovial cyst. Any issue that shrinks the spinal canal area resulting in reduced space for the spinal nerves and other elements may cause spinal stenosis and pain. Surgeons and medical device companies seek surgical means to reduce spinal stenosis and open the spinal canal area. Conservative care back pain specialists like chiropractors and your La Grande chiropractor at Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC seek non-surgical means - like La Grande spinal manipulation and mobilization which are shown to keep the disc healthy by improved water flow and diffusion (1) - to do the same thing: reduce spinal stenosis and widen the spinal canal area.
A comparison of surgical and conservative treatments of spinal stenosis demonstrates that conservative care is better. At 6 months post-care – surgical or non-surgical – no significant differences are noted in the spinal stenosis patients. At 12 and 24 months post-care, the surgical spinal stenosis patients report higher disability scores. Surgical spinal stenosis patients suffered higher complication rates than the conservative care spinal stenosis patients. Based on their reviews of the published data, the researchers still don’t feel that there is decisive proof to recommend surgical or non-surgical care to lumbar spinal stenosis sufferers. (2) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers that a trial of 30 days looking for 50% improvement for most La Grande back pain patients with research-documented chiropractic care following the protocols of the Cox Technic System of Care. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC is a good place to start!
Those spinal stenosis patients who show 33% to 50% improvement in pain at 2 weeks of care have improved odds of 6 to 7 times higher to have 50% improvement at their 6 months’ disability follow up. (3) Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC seeks La Grande pain relief as early as possible, and the treatment plan is established with this in mind. In some cases, a small number of patients, Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC may see a La Grande spinal stenosis patient on a daily basis at the start of care. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC takes good care of our La Grande lumbar spinal stenosis patients!
And lastly Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC relies on its experienced clinical judgment and evidence of a patient’s not improving as expected to order more imaging or schedule a surgical consultation as needed. (4) It’s well defined in the algorithms of decision making that guide our Cox Technic system of spine pain management and lumbar spinal stenosis.
Schedule your La Grande chiropractic appointment today. Dr. Paulette Hugulet, DC, LLC offers experience in relieving La Grande back pain due to spinal stenosis.
